Fishing Vessel

As the search for the crew of a missing fishing vessel continued for a second day, the Coast Guard began preliminary work to determine why the Arctic Rose sank so suddenly, without even enough time for the crew to radio for help. Fifteen crew members were aboard the 92-foot vessel when it went down in the Bering Sea, about 775 miles southwest of Anchorage. The only sign of trouble was a signal from the vessel's emergency beacon at 3:30 a.m. Monday.

A Mexican national was convicted of second-degree murder Wednesday in the death of a veteran Coast Guardsman thrown overboard when a panga boat rammed the U.S. vessel. Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III's 2012 death made him the first Coast Guardsman murdered in the line of duty since 1927, officials said. Horne, who spent 14 years with the Coast Guard, was posthumously promoted to the rank of senior chief petty officer. Horne's widow, Rachel, was pregnant with Horne's third son at the time of his death.

A missile fired by an Iraqi warplane slammed into an Australian-flagged fishing vessel off the Iranian coast Thursday morning, killing the captain, shipping officials said. The attack roughly coincided with daylight raids launched by suspected Iranian Revolutionary Guards on a Pakistani tanker. Alan Brown, Australia's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said in a telephone interview that Capt.

Authorities seized nearly a ton of marijuana Saturday morning from a Mexican fishing vessel that came ashore in Manhattan Beach, federal officials said. The panga boat carrying 1,850 pounds of pot was spotted shortly before 3 a.m., according to Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Two Mexican men were taken into custody and Homeland Security agents are investigating. The boat ran aground near 44th Street and the men were discovered hiding in bushes about 800 yards away, KABC-TV reported.

As the St. Vincent One unloaded its cargo in the early morning fog at Ventura Harbor, a crowd of curious passers-by gathered to watch the spectacle. One by one, a crane lifted the giant carcasses of deep-sea swordfish, big-eye tuna, mako shark, dorado and the red-speckled tropical fish called opah out of the boat's hold and onto a dockside scale.

The Spanish brig-of-war El Cazador, laden with 19 tons of newly minted silver, struggled against the storm--until the battle was lost, and the ship and its treasure sank in the Gulf of Mexico. There it rested for 210 years, until last year, when it was found by accident--and by Mistake. Last August, the fishing vessel Mistake dropped a trawl along the muddy bottom in 300 feet of water, 50 miles south of Grand Isle. It came up torn and full of rocks.

A Coast Guard cutter from San Diego and other ships and aircraft were trying late Monday to help the stranded crew of a San Pedro-based fishing vessel caught in Hurricane Darby off the Mexican coast, the Coast Guard said. Earlier Monday, the Coast Guard helped rescue another crew caught in the same storm while en route to Newport Beach, said Lt. John Davis of the Coast Guard operations center in Long Beach.

Customs officers intercepted a Chinese-registered fishing vessel in Hong Kong waters and seized 4.8 million cigarettes worth $307,700 that were being smuggled into China, the Customs Department said last week.

Eight people were rescued from a disabled fishing vessel and the ship was towed into Los Angeles Harbor for repairs. The U.S. Coast Guard launched two rescue ships and a helicopter to aid the 67-foot fishing vessel, the St. Joseph, which was located about 12 to 15 nautical miles south-southwest of the San Pedro Lighthouse. The cause of the accident was under investigation.

Seventeen Japanese crew members who jumped into the North Pacific from their burning fishing vessel were rescued by a passing ship Tuesday, a Coast Guard spokesman said. No injuries were reported. Mark Farmer, Coast guard spokesman in Juneau, said reports indicated the fishing vessel was destroyed by the flames. It was 600 miles southe of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, when the fire broke out shortly before noon.

WASHINGTON - Fearful of a terrorist attack, aU.S. Navyfuel resupply ship that had just passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf opened fire at a 50-foot fishing boat moving toward it, killing one person and wounding three, U.S. officials said. A security team aboard the Rappahannock, which refuels warships, fired a .50-caliber machine gun Monday after the smaller boat "disregarded warnings and rapidly approached" about 10 miles off Jebel Ali port in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, according to the Navy's 5th Fleet, which is based in neighboring Bahrain.

The TLC reality show "19 Kids and Counting" may soon need a new name. Arkansas couple Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar appeared with their burgeoning clan on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday and announced they are expecting their 20th child in April. Michelle Duggar, 45, said she's in good physical shape and that she's not worried, despite complications during her last pregnancy that led to the premature birth of their youngest child two years ago. She said she's made it through her first trimester safely.

The Sunstar is in an Oxnard boatyard, up on screw jacks under a canopy of sun-beaten tarps. The orange wheelhouse is peeling, with scraps of plywood standing in for missing window panes. The blue of the hull is scuffed off along the angles . Spots of fiberglass are coming off in brown lesions. The Herzik brothers are hunkered down in the hold, sanding the corners of two new gas tanks they built of plywood and fiberglass. Terry is the captain, 64 years old, solid, broad-shouldered, a bit craggy from the years of sun and sea. Doug is 61, leaner, smoother, with blond-gray hair and hooded, slightly wary eyes.

Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old solo sailor who ran into trouble in the middle of the Indian Ocean this week, has been rescued. Sunderland was reported to be in good health after being plucked from her damaged vessel 2,000 nautical miles off western Australia by the crew of the French fishing ship the Ile De La Reunion at 7.45pm AEST. The crew of the Ile De La Reunion, a considerably larger vessel than Sunderland's Wild Eyes, dispatched a smaller boat to pick her up. The rescue, coordinated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's Rescue Coordination Center -- Australia (RCC Australia)

Heaping more tragedy on an already grieving South Korea, a fishing vessel assisting in the search for 46 crewmen of a sunken naval boat went down Saturday, and the nine on board were presumed dead. As the South Korean coast guard retrieved the bodies of two of the fishermen, divers found the first corpse from the 1,200-ton navy ship Cheonan, which sank late last month after an explosion. Fifty-eight crew members, including the captain, were rescued. The body was discovered near the ship's mess hall, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

The Coast Guard found a fishing vessel missing since Friday night submerged 36 feet in Nantucket Sound. All four crew members were still missing. Coast Guard rescuers said it appeared unlikely the crew would be found alive in the frigid waters. The vessel's lone life raft was found attached to the boat. At the time the 75-foot Lady of Grace went missing, the wind was blowing at more than 30 mph with waves as high as 10 feet.

China charged Tuesday that Vietnamese ships fired on an unarmed Chinese fishing vessel in the Gulf of Tonkin, killing two crew members, and said it lodged a strong protest with Vietnam over the incident. The official New China News Agency said the incident occurred March 26.

A Polish fishing vessel accused of operating illegally in American waters was seized in the Bering Sea by the Coast Guard and was being escorted Tuesday to a port in the Aleutian Islands, authorities said.

Two commercial fishermen died and another was rescued after their boat sank near Santa Cruz Island off the Santa Barbara coast early Tuesday, the Coast Guard reported. Clifton Kent, a 45-year-old Santa Barbara resident and skipper of the 5G's, managed to swim more than a mile through chilly waters and was rescued near the island's Painted Caves area.

A commercial fish processing ship with 204 people aboard was drifting in the stormy waters of the Gulf of Alaska after its steering system failed, the Coast Guard said. The 325-foot Independence, which called for help, was tossing around in 20-foot seas in blowing snow whipped by winds as high as 60 mph, Coast Guard officials said. "They're getting pounded pretty good," said Chief Petty Officer Roger Wetherell. "There's a lot of potential for injuries."